Silvertines Big Game Hunting Guides
Steve Rahn
I was born and raised in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. Raised on a Cattle Ranch and growing up in a family full of big game hunters it gave me a deep appreciate and passion for the outdoors and love of animals. To this day I strive to continue a proud family ranching tradition dating back three generations here in British Columbia. My Hunting passion started from a young age, I cannot remember that far back when the first time I expressed an interest to go hunting, but I do vaguely recall asking my father to take me along on his annual moose hunts, and him saying something about needing to be potty trained first?
Always having a deep passion for the outdoors, horses, and hunting, once I finished a short term in University (and was potty trained fully) I ventured to the Yukon, were I guided Big game hunters on Horseback Hunting trips for Stone and Dall sheep for over 10 years. During the off season I would work as a cowboy on large cattle ranches in BC and Alberta for about 5 years. I purchased a raw chunk of land in the Fort St. John area of BC around 2004, and started raising and boarding horses! I now joined the ranks of being self employed. I built my herd up to over 100 head, ran brood mares and stallions, broke the young horses to ride, and sold them to trail riding and outfitting operators for many years. Having that many horses was a lot of fun, and work, but the profit margin was slim to say the least, so I decided to buy into my first hunting/guiding business with a partner. That "partnership" lasted two years before dissolving and I moved on. It was right around this time that I sold my Fort St. John home and moved to Clinton and started my Ranch in 2001. The large broodmare band of the past was reduced, and the purchase of our second guiding business "Buckskin Outfitting" just out of Clinton materialized. I continued guiding international hunters and breeding and rearing horses on a smaller scale, and decided to sell Buckskin Outfitting in 2006, as I had started "Silvertine Wildlife Co." in 2005, and it was growing leaps and bounds, and I could only successfully operate one business, so I sold my Free Ranch guiding concessions. As of 2018 I have been guiding hunters for 31 years, and know I am one of those fortunate outfitters that has never forgot why I got into this profession in the first place...because I love the outdoors, hunting, and sharing hunting experiences with others. Being personally involved in every hunters hunt is of utmost importance to me.
I have diversified the ranch into not only hunting, but rearing "Wildlife" like the Elk, Bison, Tibetan Yak, Wild Turkey, Aoudad, Markhor, Watusi, and many types of Sheep. For more information on my ranching endeavors when I am not guiding, please feel free to visit www.silvertineranch.ca
Always having a deep passion for the outdoors, horses, and hunting, once I finished a short term in University (and was potty trained fully) I ventured to the Yukon, were I guided Big game hunters on Horseback Hunting trips for Stone and Dall sheep for over 10 years. During the off season I would work as a cowboy on large cattle ranches in BC and Alberta for about 5 years. I purchased a raw chunk of land in the Fort St. John area of BC around 2004, and started raising and boarding horses! I now joined the ranks of being self employed. I built my herd up to over 100 head, ran brood mares and stallions, broke the young horses to ride, and sold them to trail riding and outfitting operators for many years. Having that many horses was a lot of fun, and work, but the profit margin was slim to say the least, so I decided to buy into my first hunting/guiding business with a partner. That "partnership" lasted two years before dissolving and I moved on. It was right around this time that I sold my Fort St. John home and moved to Clinton and started my Ranch in 2001. The large broodmare band of the past was reduced, and the purchase of our second guiding business "Buckskin Outfitting" just out of Clinton materialized. I continued guiding international hunters and breeding and rearing horses on a smaller scale, and decided to sell Buckskin Outfitting in 2006, as I had started "Silvertine Wildlife Co." in 2005, and it was growing leaps and bounds, and I could only successfully operate one business, so I sold my Free Ranch guiding concessions. As of 2018 I have been guiding hunters for 31 years, and know I am one of those fortunate outfitters that has never forgot why I got into this profession in the first place...because I love the outdoors, hunting, and sharing hunting experiences with others. Being personally involved in every hunters hunt is of utmost importance to me.
I have diversified the ranch into not only hunting, but rearing "Wildlife" like the Elk, Bison, Tibetan Yak, Wild Turkey, Aoudad, Markhor, Watusi, and many types of Sheep. For more information on my ranching endeavors when I am not guiding, please feel free to visit www.silvertineranch.ca
Odus Rahn (aka: Odi, or Odi-doe-dee, Odi-dog, or Bone Hunter) Born July 3, 2016
You know you are a small personalized operation when the Outfitters dog is a member of the team. Well ask any Silvertine client and they will say "Heck Ya" Odus is as instrumental as Steve in the smooth operation of Silvertine. We are still discovering Odus's many talents, but so far the biggest one is his nose. Odus's skills as a tracker are in the rough stages, but one day he will make a Masai warrior scratch his head in disbelief, plus he has found numerous shed antlers this fall for me. He is a true Lab, and a team player, always willing to pitch in when their is skinning (or cooking) chores to be done. Odus also likes to have his own chair in the tree house and help watch for game, and he was on his first elk kill at 5 weeks of age, now that's a future guide in the making!
Are you guys coming hunting with me?
On the watch for game in the tree house.
|
Odi's first kill at 5 weeks of age.
A warm welcome awaits you at Silvertine.
|
Still hunting, these logs are not getting any smaller.
Even top guides need a little rest once and awhile.
|
Jason Shaw
Jason Shaw born in 1987’ was raised in Northern Alberta in the heart of Big Game country. Growing up spending time on the family farm he was always in the bush giving the local critters problems!
He took his first whitetail at the age of 12, that small buck was the start of a lifelong desire to hunt. Jason started guiding both archery and rifle hunters in B.C and Alberta when he was 15. After leaving the family farm he pursued the Oil and Gas industry for over a decade, during this time he found himself guiding as often as he could, work schedule willing.
Jason has had a successful global hunting career as well as a very successful North American guiding career.
He took his first whitetail at the age of 12, that small buck was the start of a lifelong desire to hunt. Jason started guiding both archery and rifle hunters in B.C and Alberta when he was 15. After leaving the family farm he pursued the Oil and Gas industry for over a decade, during this time he found himself guiding as often as he could, work schedule willing.
Jason has had a successful global hunting career as well as a very successful North American guiding career.
Aaron McGaughey
Aaron McGaughey has extensive knowledge and specializes in whitetail deer. Aaron has managed several Whitetail ranches for several decades. In 2008, Aaron began specilizing in implementing scientific deer breeding programs on ranches to enhance genetics, and has developed several ranches like ours to grow deer to their fullest potential threw proper management. Aaron has been guiding whitetail hunts majority of his life. Aaron has over thirty years experience ageing and judging whitetail deer on the hoof. In 2009.
Over the years Aaron has become like a brother to me. Aaron is a passionate hunter himself, and has killed the SCI Word Record Roosevelt elk and European Mouflon with a crossbow, and the number 5 SCI world record Rocky Mountain elk with a bow. Aaron has also taken almost each class of whitetail and several exotics that classified for the SCI record book.
Outside of the hunting season Aaron is a Police Officer and strong family man, and has a beautiful wife Shelly and their three kid-o's, Hunter, Gracey, and Brady.
Over the years Aaron has become like a brother to me. Aaron is a passionate hunter himself, and has killed the SCI Word Record Roosevelt elk and European Mouflon with a crossbow, and the number 5 SCI world record Rocky Mountain elk with a bow. Aaron has also taken almost each class of whitetail and several exotics that classified for the SCI record book.
Outside of the hunting season Aaron is a Police Officer and strong family man, and has a beautiful wife Shelly and their three kid-o's, Hunter, Gracey, and Brady.
Ryan Hartling
Back in 2002 I had the privilege to have this young man guide for me on my old area in British Columbia before the creation of Silvertine. Ryan has continued to guide for me on and off ever since. He has made guiding big game his profession and guides about 8 months of the year, and has gathered more experience in the bush guiding big game than most men will ever do in nine lifetimes. Ryan manages several guide areas, one in British Columbia and the other in Saskatchewan. There he guides for large spring Black and Grizzly bears during the months of April-June, and September. During the October and November months he guides for Whitetails in Saskatchewan. This year we will be fortunate to have Ryan return to Silvertine for his third partial season in August and early September, so those of you that are fortunate to have him as your guide are in some of the most competent hands in the industry.
Ryan is married to his lovely wife Tarryl, whom is also a hunter, and they are busy during his time away from guiding raising and teaching their two young boys how to be sportsmen.
Ryan is married to his lovely wife Tarryl, whom is also a hunter, and they are busy during his time away from guiding raising and teaching their two young boys how to be sportsmen.
